You were baptised a Catholic and you’ll leave this world a Catholic.
Now it still might be a Catholic who does not practice the faith, but a Catholic nevertheless.
You were baptised a Catholic and you’ll leave this world a Catholic. Now it still might be a Catholic who does not practice the faith, but a Catholic nevertheless.
Wrong.
When I was a baby, my parents had me baptized into Catholicism, but when I was saved, I was baptized into Christ and became a new creature in Christ for whom old things are passed away, all things are become new.
IOW, I was sprinkled as a sinner while a baby, and got saved as an adult.
Getting sprinkled does not and did not make me anything but a wet sinner. It did not make me anything else. It leaves no mark on my soul because getting physically wet doesn't make spiritual reality happen.
The RCC can make all its claims of ownership of my soul it wants, but they are meaningless. It is nothing more than a desperate attempt at a power grab on my life and soul which I do not recognize.
In reality, it owns nothing of me because I belong to Christ. HE bought me at a price and I belong to HIM, not the Catholic church.
Just like someone who is baptized as a Protestant will leave the world as a Protestant.
A lapsed, Protestant at that, but a Protestant nevertheless.
Now it still might be a Catholic who does not practice the faith, but a Catholic nevertheless.
Which profits you nothing if not dying with saving faith as a regenerate believer, which few RCs and have, and with most being like Ted Kennedy RCs, though many RCs deny that such are Catholic.